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Ward Farnsworth Doesn’t Fuck Around | The Millions Now, six years on, Ward Farnsworth has produced a sequel (a term associated more with Hollywood franchises than with manuals on literary technique)....
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14 Unique and Innovative Short Story Collections | Read It Forward To celebrate National Short Story month, here are fourteen innovative and unique story collections, the kinds that contain wonderful...
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Actually, Criticism is Literature | Literary Hub Now as a critic I love these essays; I get a kick out of seeing how others define what it is that I do. Moreover, many of these writers have brought...
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Don’t Ask Me What My Favorite Book Is Read It Forward The problem with naming one’s favorite book has less to do with the futility of reducing all literary experiences into one representative title and...
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Na Verdade, Crítica é Literatura | Capitu My Literary Hub essay, “Actually, Criticism Is Literature” has been translated into Portuguese! It’s my second essay to be translated, and both have been into...
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Will Anyone Read Chuck Klosterman in 100 Years? Literary Hub Here’s a prediction that’s easy for me to make: Chuck Klosterman’s new book, But What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Future as if It...
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Borges is Still Dead. (Or is He? And Which Borges?) Literary Hub On the 30th Anniversary of Borges’s death. Maybe my favorite essay I’ve published yet. “The Other” and “August 25, 1983” are twin...
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Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett The Scofield, Spring 2016 I reviewed A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass in the latest issue of The Scofield. Artist Chris Ames drew portraits of all the contributors, and <–...
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14 Posthumous Classics from the 14th Century to the Present | Read It Forward Classic works of literature can seem so historical, so chiseled in stone by antiquity or genius, that it’s easy to forget...
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Why Books Are the Best Roommates | Read It Forward Living with someone is like dancing in that it’s less about particular moves and more about staying in rhythm with your partner. No matter what your...
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Remarkable Books Written by Teenagers | Read It Forward Nearly every season, the literary world is introduced to some wunderkind writer who, at some stupidly young age like 21 or 22, has crafted a...
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The Best Books About Books, Part II | Literary Hub Last summer, I wrote a piece about a number of books that were themselves about books, a category that happens to be my very favorite. Though I maybe...
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7 Single-Sitting Stunners | Read It Forward I recently sat down to read Max Porter’s extremely well-acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, a genre blend of essay, poetry, and fable, and...
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14 Complex, Ambitious, and Experimental Novels by Women | Read It Forward The authors of the following tomes seem less driven by the feat of epicness and more by its potential for infinite complexity....
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Against Borrowing Books | Read It Forward There is a certain tyranny to borrowing books. For me, the reading of books—and not just books in the general sense but very specific ones—is a vital activity,...
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Biographies That WON’T Make You Sick and Kill You (underline ‘won’t’ because that makes it look like the other ones…) Read It Forward Look, I understand that in some fundamental way one’s interest in...
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The Unacknowledged Obstacle of Literary Sleepiness | Read It Forward So I want to throw my two cents into this non-conversation and try to elucidate how sleepiness is a regular part of my reading (and...
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Skateboarding in the 2020 Olympics | Rolling Stone So thrilled to have written my first piece for Rolling Stone!! HOLY SHIT! FROM THE ARTICLE: “Well, it’s finally official: skateboarding is a sport....
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All of Philip Roth’s Novels, Ranked | Read It Forward Philip Roth is—or, since he’s not dead but retired, I should probably say was—the best American novelist of the 20th century. Between Goodbye,...
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The List of Books That Saved My Life | Read It Forward So anyway, I moved to Las Vegas to go to school, which, I know, sounds ridiculous, but it’s true: I was to attend UNLV and live in a house my...
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